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AWS Architect

AWS Architect/ SRELocation: NYC, NY / Fort Mill, SC Role Overview: We are looking for a hands-on, technically strong Resilience, Testability &amp; Scalability Lead to drive engineering excellence across our data platforms and cloud-based applications. This role is critical in ensuring system uptime, test automation maturity, performance under scale, and architectural resilience to meet stringent regulatory and service-level demands.The ideal candidate will have a deep background in designing highly available systems, implementing robust disaster recovery, managing scalable cloud infrastructure, and building automated, testable, and observable platforms—especially within AWS and Kubernetes environments.Key Responsibilities: <ul><li>Design and implement high availability and failover strategies across multi-zone AWS deployments</li><li>Lead the development and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity plans, including RTO/RPO validation and cross-region strategies</li><li>Define testability strategies, test data management frameworks, and performance testing protocols</li><li>Enable infrastructure and application resilience by introducing circuit breakers, retry patterns, service meshes, and graceful degradation mechanisms</li><li>Establish real-time monitoring, alerting, and log aggregation frameworks using tools like CloudWatch and Prometheus D</li><li>Drive test automation and quality engineering best practices, integrating with CI/CD pipelines</li><li>Optimize application and data layer performance through query tuning, caching, and indexing strategies</li><li>Scale data processing using distributed frameworks like Apache Spark, and implement event-driven stream processing with Kafka</li><li>Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and SRE teams to ensure resource efficiency, cost control, and performance SLAs</li><li>Contribute to regulatory readiness by enforcing security, encryption, and audit logging standards</li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;Required Skills &amp; Experience: Infrastructure Resilience &amp; DR: •&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Multi-AZ deployments, auto-scaling, load balancing, circuit breakers•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Disaster recovery design: backup/restore, cross-region replication, RTO/RPO&nbsp;&nbsp;Monitoring &amp; Observability: •&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, log aggregators•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Set up alerting for incident response, latency, throughput, and error rates&nbsp;Application Resilience &amp; Security: •&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Error handling, service degradation, exponential backoff•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Security best practices: IAM policies, encryption at rest/transit•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Familiarity with FINRA/SIPC compliance standards (preferred)&nbsp;&nbsp;Test Automation &amp; Quality: •&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unit testing (e.g., pytest), integration testing, E2E automation•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Test data generation, synthetic data, environment provisioning•&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Performance testing using JMeter, Gatling, stress and capacity testing•&nbsp;&nbsp;Code reviews, static analysis, data validation, anomaly detection&nbsp;Scalability &amp; Optimization: •&nbsp;Horizontal scaling using Kubernetes, Docker, service discovery&nbsp;•&nbsp;API Gateway, caching layers (Redis, Memcached), DB partitioning•&nbsp;Connection pooling, capacity planning, cost-aware architecture&nbsp;&nbsp;Data &amp; Stream Processing: •&nbsp;Spark cluster management, parallel processing, big data optimization•&nbsp;Kafka-based messaging, windowing, and aggregation for real-time data&nbsp;&nbsp;Preferred Qualifications: •&nbsp;Experience in financial services or regulated environments•&nbsp;Familiarity with enterprise data and platform modernization initiatives•&nbsp;AWS or Kubernetes certifications•&nbsp;Strong communication skills and cross-functional collaboration experience&nbsp;